Paint



UNTTEE s TnTEs PATENT QEETeE.

lSRAEl. TOWNSEND, OF PORTSMOUTH, YIl'tGlXIA.

PAINT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 398,917, dated March 5,1889. Application filed June 4, 1888. Serial No. 276,039. (Nospecimensf) 1"0 (LIZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, Isnam. 'loivksnun, a resident of Portsmouth, in thecounty of Norfolk and State of Virginia, have invented certain new anduseful Improvements in Paints; and I do hereby declare the following tobe awhat thicker.

When the paint has dried, it will be found perfectly ii'npcrvious toWater and ashard as stone.

When the last coat has been applied and before it dries, it. ispreferable that line sand full, clear, and exact description of theinventiou, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which itilertains to make and use the same.

My invention relates to an improvement in paints; and it consists in thepeculiar com pound hereinafter described and claimed.

I first prepare a vehicle as follows: To one should be sifted on it.

For ordinary purposes two coats of my improved paint will be suiiicient;but-for unusually-exposed situations three coats should be applied.

I do not desire to limit myself to the precise proportions of th eingredients as l'iereinbefore described, as it is evident that the samemay gallon of strong milk of lime (made from fresh caustic lime)one-half pound of powdered alum is added. I then add one gallon oflinseed-oil and one-half pound of litharge. These ingredients, onbeingwell stirred, readily unite and make a thick emulsion. \Vhen readyto use the paint, I stir into the vehicle thus prepared 1 two pounds ofmetallic brown, two pounds of dry cement. and two pounds of line drysand, a sul'iicient quantity of these materials being stirred into thevehicle to make a good thick paint: but care must be taken not to mixthese ingredients with the vehicle until the paint is to be used.

After the priming coat of my improved compound has been applied the sameis permitted to dry. The second coat is then applied,

the paint being the same as before, but some-

